I have not missed anything at all, I am not raising this precisely because this is not applicable NOW and the RX 6800 was still extremely difficult to obtain even after the fall of the use of crypto cards and even now the demand is still higher than the offer.
My answer was aimed at your claim that people then just go to the competition and now you are citing something completely different to talk around that and pretending I missed something which is pure nonsense.
Everyone knows that there is no longer a demand from crypto mining, so you do not have to mention that.
Everyone knows that the prices of the current cards have fallen considerably.
NVidia knows very well that as long as people are willing to pay a ton of money for a new card they will continue to do so no matter the circumstances because there are always people who insist on having the latest or bragging rights about their new cards. new purchase in the same sense that there will always be people who will buy a new BMW instead of a cheaper alternative simply because a BMW 3 Series has more prestige than a Ford Mondeo or a Mazda 6.
In addition, cards such as the 3090, 3090 Ti, 4090 and 4090 Ti are not made for gamers, but for people who mainly use the cards for professional applications and if you earn money from it and a Quadro is above your budget, then you buy such a card even if it is much more expensive than a 3080 / 4080 simply because it is still a lot cheaper compared to a Quadro.
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